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by rvense 6y ago
I went to a NodeJS party one time but I didn't like it, only one person could have fun at once. Then I went to an Erlang party, and it was just a bunch of nerds at separate tables passing notes to each other about how much fun they wer
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by rvense 6y ago
I have a VT510, non-graphical. It's a little dim, but I like it.
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by rvense 6y ago
This article is very flawed. It mentions two scenarios: decentralized, uncontrolled money, versus government control. But it is missing the third scenario, which is the on that is actually happening in most places: plain old privatization.
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by rvense 6y ago
Refuted claims are still repeated, and in many cases refuting evidence will not make people change their beliefs.
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by rvense 6y ago
There was at least one man at the "event" who thought it was funny to wear a shirt that said CAMP AUSCHWITZ on the front and STAFF on the back.
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by rvense 6y ago
Because there's nothing modern or experimental about Redox? At least not like what this is trying.
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by rvense 6y ago
Same as adhering to any standard? The software you want to run produces VT-compatible output, the terminal consumes that and provides a display.
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by rvense 6y ago
It really depends on your prior experience. If you're a programmer that's used to working with a command line-based Unix environment, the open tools will feel a lot more familiar than the proprietary ones.
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by rvense 6y ago
Couldn't we just insert/remove an extra five minutes the first Saturday of every month? We'd get the same effect, but without the jump.
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by rvense 6y ago
My (Android) phone is de-Googled, so no apps except from F-Droid, and I only use the one-time pad for the national SSO solution. Following a recent change, not having the SSO apps means I have to have use an extra password + SMS 2FA on many
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by rvense 6y ago
Two words: forced interoperability.
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by rvense 6y ago
I certainly don't want my bank, dentist, phone company etc. to rely on a private, foreign company to decide if they trust who I am. Google are involved in stuff they shouldn't be involved in, access to an e-mail account should not
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by rvense 6y ago
It is increasingly impossible to live in my country without a number of apps that require an iOS device or an Android device with all the Google services enabled. There's one de facto monopoly payment app[0], a lot of places where you
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by rvense 6y ago
That looks great, thanks!
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by rvense 6y ago
I've done quite a bit of Scheme in the past, but I've been playing with Common Lisp a little recently, and I often find myself thinking things like "how do I convert a string to a list of characters" or "how do I ch
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by rvense 6y ago
Paul Graham almost suggests this in the first chapter of ANSI Common Lisp in 1995.
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by rvense 6y ago
For a long time I thought it was called "Comic" because of the hilarious faces font snobs pull when you show it to them, but apparently it's because it was inspired by the text in comic books. I think it's sort of transc
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by rvense 6y ago
Is it really a pendulum, or is it more that this was always an idea with merit that's now finally seeing wider adoption because it's become more widely available? (In part, I understand, due to some IBM patents that expire 10 or s
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by rvense 6y ago
Does Clozure still exist for Mac? I don't follow MacOS anymore, but it used to have a pretty decent GUI. (Not as good as its ancestor, Macintosh Common Lisp, which also had a GUI builder and other cool stuff, but recommending OS9 apps
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by rvense 6y ago
I found getting slimv and sbcl running to be quite easy. If you're used to vim and console apps it's straight forward.
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by rvense 6y ago
Chinese script is logographic, Japanese only partially so. But a language is not its script. By approximation all modern languages that have been written have been written in the Latin script. That doesn't make them "similar langu
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by rvense 6y ago
That's a very strange statement, since Chinese and Japanese are not at all similar languages. There are some loanwords, the shared writing system and a lot of historical and cultural, err, interchange, but they have no shared linguisti
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by rvense 6y ago
I've been working for startups in Copenhagen ("the most livable city in the world") for a few years now, and every young tech company I know of have extremely diverse developer teams (it's not uncommon to be in the minor
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by rvense 6y ago
You can still get brand-new 65c02s and related peripherals as well.
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by rvense 6y ago
I'd say all languages work like that, not just English. Your phrasing "too ambiguous" is a little off to me. Ambiguity (in the sense of utterances having multiple possible interpretations) is the norm in natural language, and
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by rvense 6y ago
But... is it really Christmas if the kids don't get into fights over who gets the reindeer-shaped cookie cutter, and who gets the star? And this research is from a Danish university, Danish Christmas cookies don't have icing. We o
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by rvense 6y ago
Yeah, true. Everything's Windows, so if you expect schools to teach computing in the sense of "... and then you click this button" I suppose they have a point. I'm just really happy I've never had to use Windows.
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by rvense 6y ago
Egh, well, I'm a Linux user and software developer, and I've had one job that forced me use a Mac but none that forced me to use Windows.
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by rvense 6y ago
I've already read people complaining that kids leave school without knowing how to use a "real computer", meaning Windows.
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by rvense 6y ago
> My viewpoint is: calling for ethnic cleansing through violence creates real harm (people have been murdered!), so private citizens and organizations should not support people who advocate for ethnic cleansing. Oh, I wholly agree on tha

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